Jack Mason
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| Full name | John Richard Mason | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 March 1874 Blackheath, Kent |
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| Died | 15 October 1958 (aged 84) Cooden Beach, Sussex |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations |
James Mason (brother) Charles Mason (brother) |
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| Test debut (cap 109) | 13 December 1897 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 2 March 1898 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1893–1914 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 21 March 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Richard Mason (26 March 1874 – 15 October 1958), known as Jack Mason, was an English amateur cricketer who played for England in five Test matches on A.E. Stoddart's 1897–98 tour of Australia. A right-hand bat and right-arm fast-medium pace bowler, Mason played county cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1914, captaining the side between 1898 and 1902. With a height over six feet, and an attractive, elegantly straight play with the bat, Mason was considered "one of the finest amateur allrounders to play for Kent". Mason was chosen as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1898.
Mason was born in Blackheath, then part of the county of Kent. He attended Winchester College where he was a prolific batsman, averaging 48 and 55 in his final two years at the school. He scored 147 and 71 and took eight wickets in one match against Eton College in 1892. He was described by Wisden in 1898, the year he was named as one of the Cricketers of the Year, as "beyond all question the finest batsman turned out in our time by Winchester College."
Mason went on to play as an amateur for Kent County Cricket Club, making his debut in 1893 after leaving school in a County Championship match against Sussex at Foxgrove Road, Beckenham in July. Despite a lacklustre second season, he became a stalwart performer for the County and gave "splendid all-round service". He played regularly for Kent between 1894 and 1902, scoring over 1,000 runs each season from 1895.
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